Posts Tagged ‘in practice’

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Therapist Directories: Are They Worth Your Time (And Money)?

Last updated 12th May 2008

When I’m asked for suggestions about how to get more clients for an online therapy practice, one of the first things the other therapist usually mentions is their membership in such-and-such online directory. It turns out that quite a few of the therapists who are struggling to find clients are already members of one or more directories, so it’s clear that not everybody who joins a directory actually winds up with many clients. Therapist directories might be a great deal, but for whom?

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Provocative Therapy: Kill or Cure!

Last updated 7th April 2008

Provocative Therapy turns all accepted wisdom about therapy on its head. Here is a therapy in which the therapist makes fun of the client’s problems, blows them up out of all proportion and suggests crazy and surreal solutions seemingly off the top of their heads. So why does it seem to be effective?

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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression

Last updated 14th February 2008

Although research in this area is in its infancy, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is generally revealed by a recent overview to be a promising therapy in terms of clinical effectiveness.

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Listening to the Client

Last updated 11th February 2008

For me the key to therapy is space: space in which to listen and to perceive in a total way everything that the client says with their words, and with their body, space in which to listen as if this person were the first and only person in the world, and they were giving you some infinitely precious information — how it is for them.

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Personal Questions in Therapy

Last updated 7th February 2008

The classic response to a client’s question is to turn it back on the client, treating the question as revealing of a particular need. “I see it is really important to you to know…” This technique makes me flinch.

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